The "World of Heroes" DC RPG Season IX Signup/OOC Thread

[Blacklight]

Well let's compile a list of things we know that is established in the DCnU. Even without full detail we actually know a good amount of infrastucture that can yield interesting storylines for us to derive from:

- Almost 6 years before the present timeline, Superman emerges to the public but doesn't get a friendly welcome at first.
- 5 years ago the Justice League emerges and the main roster is composed of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg with some reserve members like Hawkman, Elemental Woman, Mera, The Atom (Ryan Choi), and I can't recall the last 1 or 2 at the moment.
- There is no JSA as far as we know (but it's rumored Nicola Scott is going to draw a JSA book in like Novemberish).
- Batman's cannon pretty much is intact however he has been operating roughly 7 years ago before the present with his first 2 years heavily influenced on the concept of Urban Legend. Barbara Gordon finds a way to walk again and becomes Batgirl again, Dick goes back to being Nightwing. Tim Drake is still Red Robin and Damian is still Robin and the idea of Robin has been moreso an internship of sorts. Jason Todd is the Red Hood still and operates with Arsenal and Starfire (everything between Kory and Dick did happen in the past also).
- Justice League International is the UN's response to the emergence of the Justice League with Batman as a liaison for the JLA to keep tabs on the JLI.
- Stormwatch is government based and has been active for years before the JLA in secret and are the "meta pros" who take down the most dangerous cases of national security.
- Green Lantern's history is still intact.
- Maxwell Lord is running Checkmate and is in a war with Brother Eye who has recruited Kevin Kho to become O.M.A.C as it's pawn.
- Superboy has been abducted by Project N.O.W.H.E.R.E. and from what we are told regarding the TT he is basically a villain for the next year as he has been meddled with an "re-programmed".
- Suicide Squad functions the same as before.

There is much more but am too busy to finish at the moment. We actually know a LOT about the DCnU.

Don't forget the best part: Clark's no longer married to Lois Lane...

 

[Harlekin]

**** continuity.

 

[Byrd Man]

**** continuity.

A man after my own heart

 

[trustyside-kick]

Though I can't tell which side he is for lol.

 

[Harlekin]

We take DCnU as our starting point and we make up **** from there. Somebody wants to change some ****? Go for it. Keep the main line intact: Superman's parents died a while ago, he never married Lois. How that affected Death of Superman? We don't know, we don't care. Again, main lines: Superman died against Doomsday. You want to do a flashback to that time? Just don't nail down a date.

I say we do it like the 'real' writers do. Take a starting point, go from there. Do what you want and if it doesn't fit? Well, maybe that's not such a big deal when it comes to the small stuff.

Main lines. Big picture.

 

[Batman]

...

You know, that'd actually be fine with me.

We take the broad strokes and leave the rest up to the players.

 

[trustyside-kick]

Which is basically option 4. Not something new in this discussion, lol.

 

[Byrd Man]

Other than a few things here are there, that's pretty much all option 4 is.

 

[Harlekin]

Except this collaboration ********. The whole reason the DC RPG's had such a good run is because there was no discussion on that front in the early days. You just did what you felt like. You picked up a character from someone else. Within those margins, you did the same.

 

[Byrd Man]

Except this collaboration ********. The whole reason the DC RPG's had such a good run is because there was no discussion on that front in the early days. You just did what you felt like. You picked up a character from someone else. Within those margins, you did the same.

I think there's a difference. It's one thing to plan things out to the very nth degree while a game is running...but this is our backstory I'm talking about. One of the main selling points in an RP is that you get to help create the world, backstory included. I'm not talking about making sure every little thing is thought out and included, I'm talking about everyone working together to build the DCU they want to see. I don't think that's "********"

 

[trustyside-kick]

IMO, I've been pushing option 1 but knowing that it would eventually evolve into option 4. I mean, over time, it can only go that direction eventually after all because the RPGs are user created content in the end.

Like I said, we actually know a lot about the DCnU's infrastructure I simply made a list in a previous post but not of everything for the "pillars" of this DCnU since I was doing that on my phone so not only was it a pain but practice had started so I had to stop.

 

[Harlekin]

Exactly. If we just take DCnU as our basic starting point, we don't need to discuss continuity at all. Just let the players do what they want.

I apologize for calling it '********', but I'm in a foul mood when it comes to language right now.

 

[trustyside-kick]

Someone steal your favorite pair of clogs?

 

[Harlekin]

Nah, just feel like swearing.

 

[trustyside-kick]

Sometimes I think that the whole Dutch thing is a hoax and you are a good 'ol American.

'MERICA!!! **** YEA!!!

 

[wiegeabo]

3 posts? 3?!

You know what, **** me, and **** all of you too.


No posts

21 days without a post
Byrd - Batman - 8/09
twylight - Black Canary - 8/05
Byrd - Green Arrow - 8/09
War - Hawkman - 7/20

14 days without a post

10 days without a post
sumowrestler - Miri - 8/18
sumowrestler - Saint Walker - 8/18
Batman - Superman 8/18

On the chopping block
Black Canary

Removed from roster
Hawkman

 

[Byrd Man]

Know what, you'd be on that goddamn list as well if you hadn't have that conveniently timed post.

I think all you ****ers have already checked out. Well, **** all of you. Finish. This. Goddamn. Season.

 

[wiegeabo]

That's why I said **** me too. One of the reasons I do the list is to keep me honest and make sure I post every one or two weeks if nothing else.

More than I can say for everyone else.

You know what? No reboot until this season is finished. You all want it so bad, maybe that'll get your asses posting.

 

[wiegeabo]

Hey guys, tired of WoH? Come over to OU. We've got tons of characters available there!

Just like we have tons of characters available here

 

[Batman]

Know what, you'd be on that goddamn list as well if you hadn't have that conveniently timed post.

I think all you ****ers have already checked out. Well, **** all of you. Finish. This. Goddamn. Season.

You finish your end. You're the goddamn Batman, *****. You ain't got crap to say with 21 days.

 

[Batman]

Hey guys, tired of WoH? Come over to OU. We've got tons of characters available there!

Just like we have tons of characters available here

Honestly, the big thing keeping me from OU (besides it being me and the general laziness that comes with that) is that I don't know what the hell is going on in that game. Some SHIELD stuff going on over here, some Spidey/Titans stuff going on over there. It's confusing.

 

[Byrd Man]

You finish your end. You're the goddamn Batman, *****. You ain't got crap to say with 21 days.

Go **** yourself. That's exactly what I got to say.

 

[SuperFerret]

Option 1 and 4 are basically the same as of right now. We have next to no real idea what the details of continuity are, just the broad strokes, so we'd have to wind up doing other things. That being said, going the route of "We're doing our own reboot" would be good, and allows new players from both the love and hate camps regarding the DC reboot to play.

 

[Byrd Man]

Yep...welcome to last week

 

[Keyser Soze]

Okay, I know I'm late to the discussion, and thankfully the conversation seems to be going in this direction anyway, but I think I'll try and give it a further nudge.

I said this in the build-up to the Marvel RPG relaunch, and I'll say it again here: there is nothing that's better guaranteed to suck the life out of any excitement for a fresh start than endless bickering over what continuity period to pin it down into. It's overthinking to the point of being neurotic. "Oh, we could have our continuity match up to post-Brightest Day, pre-Flashpoint, and if posters make sure to have Wikipedia open in one tab and ComicVine on another while writing their posts, then they'll be able to make sure their posts remain in canon, and they make sure that their characters actions don't contradict that comic from June 2011, and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGHHH!"

Here's the problem with making a continuity cut-off point. It hurt the Marvel RPG. And in recent years, it's also hurt the DC RPG. Stories often become about, "Let's redo what the comics did, so we can catch up and match things up to what they're doing." And storylines that are simply an exercise in getting from continuity point A to B rather than being about having fun and being creative inevitably flounder.

When the Marvel and DC RPGs first launched, it was simple. We started the continuity with what the continuity was in the comics at that particular moment in time. And by this, I don't mean that the DC RPG had a "post-Rebirth continuity", because batnkevlar skipped to the end of Rebirth and made an educated guess that Hal Jordan would be Green Lantern again when he chose to play as him. What I mean is that we DIDN'T OVERTHINK IT. We picked our characters, and portrayed them as if everything that had happened to them in the comics happened, but we were starting with enough of a degree of seperation that we could just do our own thing.

For example, if I pick Batman, of course the origin with his parents being murdered stays in place. He can refer to having his back broken by Bane or travelling through time after being hit by the Omega Sanction as stuff that happened to him once, but that doesn't mean I need to have him travelling the world spreading the franchise of Batman Inc because that's what the comics are doing in current continuity. I might want to mention Batman Inc as something Batman did, another player might want to play as Man O Bats, but we don't have to be beholden to the war with Leviathan because comics continuity tells us that's where we are in history. That's overthinking it. Everything that happened, happened, but now we're telling new stories.

With someone like Superman it may be more complicated, as his history has been changed by the reboot. But it's not like you have to retell his origin story. Okay, Ma Kent is dead and he's not married to Lois. But he's still Clark Kent who works at the Daily Planet. He's still Superman. The basics are there, in place, for you to launch into portraying him and having him punch bad guys. Don't be neurotic about it. Just pick him and play.

This is a new chapter, a clean slate. Let's not think about what we're doing in relation to DC Comics history, but in relation to our history. We are just doing the same thing that we did 7 years ago: taking the current comics of the time the game starts as a basic launching point, and from there doing totally our own thing and creating our own stories, not being beholden to the current storylines or continuity of the comics. It's not complicated, unless we make it complicated.